I think Danny was right about the first thread. I think that's the first time I've said he was right about anything.
For the record, the "speed" story in
Le Monde says ONLY that Airbus and BEA are going to issue a bulletin today (4th June) that Airbus crew should maintain thrust -
conserver la poussée des réacteurs - during difficult weather conditions -
en cas de conditions météorologiques difficiles.
That's the first paragraph. Everything else in the story is Brazilian newspapers quoting each other reporting the same bloody ACARS sequence everyone reported days ago. They also say that Alternate Law is an emergency power supply.
Further, they say that the various Brazilian papers involved have really good sources in AF.
Well, I'd be stunned if anyone had better sources in AF or indeed in any other big French seminationalised industry than Le Monde, which is after all a Gaullist postwar national project itself, and like most of them does a damn good job.